The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-02-15
WHAT HISTORY WILL SAY.

an account of kings and their wars,
the numbers they caused to be slain,
and the amount of mischief done to
mankind by the cruel proceedings of
those crowned tyrants. The modern
history of Hawaii will be pleasing
exception to this exhausted theme.
1t will be q recapitulation of dis
union, division, stupidity, wooden
headedness, childish tomfoolery,
qualification Of personal spite, and
promotion Of selfish interests. Brown,
Jones, and Robinson, who may have
been in their proper places, and very
decent fellows, as tinkers, butchers,
or mule-drivers, are suddenly ele-
waited to Cabinet positions, for which
nature never designed them nor
education fitted them, with all the
cares of Government on their hands,
enough, one would think, to tax the
capabilities of able and experienced
men, working with all their might.
History will record that disunion
and selfishness among the people
were largely responsible for lifting
those gentlemen from their proper
places to sphere far above their
native element. That men of such
antecedents and inexperience should
make n ludicrous and laughable dis
play from their elevated and honor
able positions is quite natural and
not to be wondered at. Neither is
it surprising that history should
chronicle their exhibitions of per-
sonal animosity and perverse selfish
ness. For men of small minds,
born and reared amid the surround
ing of narrow prejudices, usually
place the qualification of these
plebeian prociivities first on the pro-
gramme. Tom, Dick, or Harry has
given some trifling offence, and
whole days Of serious reflection
and volumes of correspondence are
devoted to the extirpation of one or
all of these humble offenders, while
the business Of the country takes
pot-luck. Or perhaps no offence
has been given at all but the emolu-
ments Of place are desired for some
impecunious friend or needy rela-
tive, whose fitness for Office may be
about equal to that Of donkey for
Doctor Of Divinity, and the faithful
and efficient public servant must
step out to make room. There may
be no charge affecting his efficiency,
or the regular discharge of his
duties, nevertheless he must 60 all
the same. Crown Ministers, of late
years, seem to have some private
conviction that they ought to make
q shindy and kill some one to dis
tinguish themselves or to help a
friend. They are supposed to draw
big salaries for serving their country,
while in reality they employ their
time in avenging themselves OF their
enemies and serving their friends.
How strange it Is that we give them
handsome salaries at the public ex-
pense, only that they may be able to
crafty their private animosties or
further the interests of their own
family circles! History will, no
doubt, record this peculiar fact for
the amusement of succeeding gener-
ations, and will probably assert that
it was shame that every subor-
dinate officer who strictly performed
his duty should be liable to reproach
or dismissal from his situation at a
moments notice, with the additional
reflection that such coarse, corrupt,
and vindictive exhibitions of Minis
terial power and arrogance do by no
means rebound to the credit of our
times.